Only an indirect method is effective. We do nothing if we have not first drawn back.
The beauty of the world is Christ's tender smile for us coming through matter.
Distance is the soul of beauty.
To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.
He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.
We should do only those righteous actions which we cannot stop ourselves from doing.